The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in…

Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

— William Nordhaus

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives,…

— William Nordhaus

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in…

— Tim Wirth

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and…

— Andrey Illarionov

Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have…

— Hans Blix

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the…

— Eileen Claussen

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to…

— Michael Meacher

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

— Andrey Illarionov

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be…

— James Howard Kunstler

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

— Enric Sala

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all…

— Christopher Flavin

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for…

— Tom Wigley